87 Tauri
E140927
87 Tauri is a star in the constellation Taurus, known as the Flamsteed-designated counterpart of the bright giant Aldebaran.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 87 Tauri canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1236493 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 87 Tauri Context triple: [Aldebaran, flamsteedDesignation, 87 Tauri]
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A.
Epsilon Sagittarii
Epsilon Sagittarii is a prominent binary star system in the constellation Sagittarius, notable as one of its most luminous and easily visible stars.
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B.
Betelgeuse Five
Betelgeuse Five is the fictional home planet of Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series.
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C.
Alnitak
Alnitak is a bright multiple star system in the constellation Orion, forming the easternmost star of the prominent asterism known as Orion’s Belt.
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D.
Canopus
Canopus was an ancient Egyptian coastal city near modern-day Alexandria, known as a major religious center and sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Isis.
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E.
Epsilon Eridani
Epsilon Eridani is a nearby young K-type main-sequence star in the constellation Eridanus, notable for its debris disk and status as a prominent target in exoplanet and SETI searches.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 87 Tauri Target entity description: 87 Tauri is a star in the constellation Taurus, known as the Flamsteed-designated counterpart of the bright giant Aldebaran.
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A.
Epsilon Sagittarii
Epsilon Sagittarii is a prominent binary star system in the constellation Sagittarius, notable as one of its most luminous and easily visible stars.
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B.
Betelgeuse Five
Betelgeuse Five is the fictional home planet of Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series.
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C.
Alnitak
Alnitak is a bright multiple star system in the constellation Orion, forming the easternmost star of the prominent asterism known as Orion’s Belt.
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D.
Canopus
Canopus was an ancient Egyptian coastal city near modern-day Alexandria, known as a major religious center and sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Isis.
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E.
Epsilon Eridani
Epsilon Eridani is a nearby young K-type main-sequence star in the constellation Eridanus, notable for its debris disk and status as a prominent target in exoplanet and SETI searches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: 87 Tauri Description of subject: 87 Tauri is a star in the constellation Taurus, known as the Flamsteed-designated counterpart of the bright giant Aldebaran.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Aldebaran